Compton and Alaska Native youth leaders will join Compton Mayor Aja Brown and the First Lady of Washington State, Trudi Inslee at the White House Roosevelt Room on Thursday, December 8 as featured participants in the Roundtable on Diversity, Youth & the Outdoors. ... read more »

On Saturday, December 3, Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Inc. (BWL) held a memorial tribute service at the Southwestern Law School to honor BWL Co-Founder and the first African American woman judge in California Justice Vaino H. Spencer who passed away in October of 2016 at the age of 96. ... read more »

California Treasurer John Chiang on Friday appealed to President-elect Donald Trump for guidance on how the state's projected $7 billion marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system while pot remains illegal under U.S. law. ... read more »

Across the nation this week, fast food, home-care, child-care and other workers rallied in cities including Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis and New York for the implementation of higher minimum wages. ... read more »